STAMFORD, Conn. – February 21, 2018 – Led by Lindsey Vonn’s bronze medal performance in her final Olympic downhill, Tuesday’s NBC Olympics’ primetime coverage delivered a Total Audience Delivery (TAD) average of 20.5 million viewers – an increase of 8% over the second Tuesday of the 2014 Sochi Olympics, according to live plus same day fast national data released today by Nielsen, and digital data from Adobe Analytics.

“To beat a comparable night from four years ago this late in the Olympics is a gravity-defying media achievement,” said Joe Brown, senior vice president of research for NBC Sports Group.

Last night’s NBC/NBCSN viewership peaked at 23.8 million viewers from 9:30-9:45 p.m. ET, for women’s alpine skiing on NBC and women’s figure skating short program on NBCSN.

Tuesday night’s NBC/NBCSN average of 20.1 million viewers dominated the TV competition – an 88% advantage over the combined 10.7 million primetime viewers for ABC, CBS and FOX. The NBC-only 17.6 million viewers in the 8-11 p.m. ET primetime window topped by 64% the other broadcast networks – marking the most dominant 2nd Tuesday of Winter Games coverage ever (people meter history, since Sept. 1987).

**NOTE: The 2014 Sochi Olympics had no simultaneous live streaming and no competing primetime Olympic cable coverage. Both of those platforms are included in Total Audience Delivery for the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics.

TOP 10 METERED MARKETS FOR NBC/NBCSN TUESDAY PRIMETIME:

1. Denver

21.5/37

2. Minneapolis

21.1/37

3. Salt Lake City

20.9/38

4. Kansas City

20.1/30

5. Buffalo

18.6/29

6. Sacramento

18.5/32

7. Austin

18.0/30

8. San Diego

17.8/32

9. Milwaukee

17.2/28

10. Portland

17.1/29

Local metered market data represents NBC/NBCSN in primetime and includes the NBC West Coast encore and excludes sustainers.

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